Prospects for the Discovery of Local Dark Matter

James Taylor (Waterloo)

Over the next five years, the constraints from experiments to detect dark matter
directly in the lab, to create it in accelerators or to identify its by-products in
astrophysical sources should start to converge in parameter space. There are
good prospects for identifying the dark matter particle definitively, or else for
eliminating many interesting candidates. I will describe what we might expect
to see in the local dark matter distribution, focussing on the main physical
processes that govern small-scale structure formation and the (considerable)
theoretical uncertainties that afflict this field.